ABSTRACT

The interdisciplinary nature of food studies lends itself to the study of food through many avenues, most notably in this research, through folklore and the oral history transcripts of the Schools’ Collection made by the Irish Folklore Commission in 1937–1938. Folklore can give us an insight into sometimes overlooked features of society and how people’s lives can be studied and highlighted through their relationship with food. The Christmas period was an extremely important time in Irish tradition, and food was a main aspect of that celebration. This paper, therefore, at first delves into the literature surrounding Christmas, folklore, and food; diet and social class; gender, and food in rural Ireland, before comparing it with the oral history transcripts of the National Folklore Collection’s online archive, to unearth a better understanding of the relationship and the role of food in the Christmas festival in Ireland’s recent past.

摘要

食品研究的跨学科性质有助于通过多种途径研究食品，最显着的是在这项研究中，通过民俗学和爱尔兰民俗委员会在 1937-1938 年制作的学校收藏的口述历史记录。民俗可以让我们深入了解有时被忽视的社会特征，以及如何通过人们与食物的关系来研究和强调人们的生活。圣诞节期间是爱尔兰传统中极其重要的时期，食物是该庆祝活动的一个主要方面。因此，本文首先深入探讨了有关圣诞节、民俗和食物的文献；饮食和社会阶层；爱尔兰农村的性别和食物，然后将其与国家民俗收藏在线档案的口述历史记录进行比较，